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The truly absurd thing is that Sony had minidiscs at a time when people were absolutely desperate for a rewritable format that could hold more than 1.44mb. Iomega Zip disks were EVERYWHERE in the late 90s, but would Sony release a MiniDisc drive for PC? Of course not.

Wonderful fucking timing Lockheed!! I just purchased a SR-71 last month! You know what, fuck the 72. I’m just going to wait for the 73.

It’s all fun and games until I’m buying a used one that says “Happy Graduation Princess”

I generally use a woodworking blade...

To quote Arthur C. Clarke, “Venus is the closest approximation to Hell in Solar System.” Although Jupiter’s moon Io makes a strong second-place.

Isn’t thermal expansion causing a lot of problems by screwing with mechanics and such that have narrow tolerances? I can’t remember off hand, but isn’t the surface of Venus somewhere around 400F?

He smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and doesn’t exercise. I’m always amazed when I remember he’s only 57. He looks like shit.

“become so safe that pilots routinely go through an entire career without ever experiencing engine trouble serious enough to result in an in-flight shutdown,”

C’est fromage de la mer!

Orbits the sun, geologically active, moons (moons with dead oceans!)... but nah. Not a planet.

If I had to die, being blown to death would pretty much be at the top of my list.

I love a breakfast pork chop.

It’s an invaluable, irreplaceable artifact. I sincerely hope they don’t let kids inside it. It would be like letting kids wander around inside King Tuts’ tomb.

The thing I find most interesting about this is not that the astronauts made notes about presumably important things on the interior panels of the capsule (I bet this thing seemed a lot less magical after you’d been living in it for several days), but rather that no one has apparently looked in there for like 40 years.